La Vie Boheme

Rejection

"Midsummer" came back today, after six weeks. I'm not surprised, but also not pleased. This was a form rejection in the truest sense of the word. Enclosed in my package was an 8 by 2 strip of paper with badly photocopied 'thanks for sending it, but it doesn't meet our needs' on it. And a blank line for comments. Ah well. Now I can just pop the manuscript (which doesn't look like it was touched at all) back in the mail tomorrow. Up next, F&SF, where I'm expecting a quick and dirty rejection from VanGelder's assistant. I could be wrong, but...